Primary Documents relating to the Civil War
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Frederick
Douglass, 1817-1895, Autobiography
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Abraham
Lincoln, A House Divided, June 16, 1858
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Steven
A. Douglas, The Dividing Line Between Fderal and Local Authority,
1859
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John
Brown's Raid [in a Contemporary Newspaper]
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John
Brown's Final Address to the Court, November 2, 1859
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Democratic
Platform 1860 (Douglas Faction)
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Democratic
Platform 1860 (Breckenridge Faction)
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Republican
Platform 1860
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The
Crittendon Compromise (1860)
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Lincoln's
1st Inaugural Address (1861)
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Declarations
of Causes of Secession [Civil War]
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Ordinances
of Secession
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South
Carolina's Address to the Slaveholding States
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Address
of George Williamson to the Texas Secession Convention
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Speech
of E.S. Dargan to the Alabama Secession Convention
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First
Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
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Second
Message of Governor Isham Harris to the Tennessee Assembly
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Constitution
of the Confederate States of America
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The
Battle Hymn of the Republic
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George
B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, 7 July 1862 on the Union defeat
during the Peninsula Campaign
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Davis,
Varina: Christmas in the Confederate White House
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Cordley,
Richard: The Lawrence Massacre, 1863
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Francis
Lieber, Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United
States in the Field, 1863
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Emancipation
Proclamation
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Marching
Song of the First Arkansas
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Days to Gettysburg: the Campaign Diaries of Two Americans
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Albert
Underwood's Civil War Diary
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Robert
E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, 5 July 1864 and the Confederate defeat at
Gettysburg
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Lincoln,
Gettysburg Address
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All
Quiet Along the Potomac
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Lincoln's
2nd Inaugural Address (1865)
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The
John and James Booker Civil War Letters
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Online delivery and searching for the letters
and diaries that are a part of the Valley
of the Shadow Project.
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